1848. 



GENESEE FARMER. 



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of which a window opens for the purpose of 

 shoveling them in, two of which are seen in the 

 upright part. The hogs are to lodge in the 

 pen, and can pass from their apartments, P, P, 

 through the yards, Y, Y, to the feeding trough, 

 T, T, a partition divides the sty or open yard, 

 and extends across the piggery, forming two 

 sleeping apartments, P, P, and two yards, Y, 

 Y ; six doors and passage ways opposite, D, D, 

 D, D, D, D. The main door in the piggery 

 opens into the passage, X, 2h feet wide, for the 

 convenience of the attendant to carry in straw, 

 &:c. The open yards may be used for litter, 

 and to manufacture manure ; these occupy the 

 space enclosed between the two upright buildings, 

 and are 16 feet long. 



The floor of each building and the yard should 

 be flagged with stone or brick, secured from 

 frost. The sills of the two main buildings are 

 raised upon a wall 18 inches. A cellar may be 

 constructed under the first building for the stor- 

 age of roots ; if seven feet deep it will hold 

 600 bushels, allowing 2420 cubic inches to the 

 bushel. A convenient wheel and windlass is 

 arranged in the loft of this house, for handling 

 the hogs at the time of killing, and may be con- 

 venient for dressing other animals. 



There are many piggeries in this State con- 

 stricted about 30 feet long, and 20 feet wide, 

 which contain all the cooking apparatus, the 

 hogs, grain in the loft, and sometimes a wool 

 I'oom, which form a complete nuisance. I am 

 opposed to feeding swine iii close buildings, 

 where they make their litter, and cooking food 

 under the same roof. The effluvia cannot be 

 very pleasant for man or beast. — Trans. 



Truly yours, S. W. Jewett. 



Weyirldge, Vt., Nov. 15, 1847. 



Facts and Inquiries, in a Letter from Tennessee. 



Messrs. Editors: — In the "Hints from a 

 Tennessean," (page 133 of the current volume 

 of the Farmer,) while speaking of the quantity of 

 corn raised per acre, you make me say " 15 or 

 20 barrels (of ears) of corn to the acre." Such 

 was not my meaning. I meant shelled corn, 

 and five bushels to the barrel. Last year I 

 raised near 15 barrels shelled corn per acre, on 

 six acres of ground, that had been in meadow I 

 suppose eight or ten years, and mowed every 

 year, and no manure applied at any time. 1 

 have the same ground in corn this year, and find 

 that it is too close; I suppose from an over sup- 

 ply of lime, as it lies just below a limestone hill. 

 There are many clods on it that were torn up in 

 breaking the ground last March, and as 1 object to 

 burning stalks it could not be harrowed, and they 

 are so hard that it is difficult now to knock them 

 to pieces with a hoe. Please give me a remedy 

 I suppose that sand or ashes would be good, but 

 neither are in reach in sufficient quantity. 



Our average corn crop here I suppose to be 

 about 7 barrels per acre of shelled corn. We 

 would like to double it, but if it has to be done 

 by saving and hauling manure, we don't know 

 but we had better leave for Texas, or some other 

 fresh range. Our manure seems to produce but 

 little benefit, compared with the labor of saving 

 and spreading it on the farm. In the first place 

 we let it remain in our stables until, from the 

 quantity, we are compelled to throw it out to 

 make room for our horses ; (we don't house 

 other stock, and not many of our horses.) It 

 then lies by the sides of the stables, exposed to 

 the sun and all the rain that falls for perhaps 

 two or three years before there is a sufficiency 

 to commence hauling. We then take it to our 

 corn fields, and if we are careful enough to put 

 a little in each hill of corn, (which requires more 

 time than most of us have at planting time,) we 

 see considerable advantage ; if spread broadcast 

 it does little good. 



I would like to know how long a wire fence 

 would be likely to last. If it can be made for 

 35 cents a rod, and will remain durable, it is 

 cheaper than most of our good fencing ; yet I 

 very much doubt its durability. 



As I am writing on various matters, without 

 any regularity or system, I will mention one or 

 two others, and quit. I have several agricultural 

 works and journals, and have looked over them 

 in vain for plans of machinery for churning and 

 washing — two of the most laborious processes of 

 household economy. I have noticed a few plans 

 for each process that I considered of little value, 

 and liable to many objections. Perhaps some 

 of your numerous readers can give plans through 

 the Farmer for each process that would be far 

 preferable to the common hand dasher to the 

 churn, and the hand rubbing or paddling for 

 washing clothes. If so, one, at least, of your 

 readers would be under obligation to recipro- 

 cate the favor when an opportunity served. 



Respectfully yours, W L. W. 



Three Forks, Tevn., July, 1848. 



Exposure to the Sun. — There are few points 

 which seem less generally understood, or more 

 clearly proved, than the fact that exposure to the 

 sun, without exercise sufficient to create ^ree. 

 perspiration, will produce illness ; and that the 

 same exposure to the sun, with sufficient exer- 

 cise, will not produce illness. Let any man 

 sleep in the sun, he will wake perspiring and 

 very ill ; perhaps he will die. Let the same man 

 dig in the «un for the same length of time, and 

 he will perspire ten times as much, and be quite 

 well. The fact is, that not only the direct rays 

 of the sun, but the heat of the atmosphere, produce 

 abundance of bile, and powerful exercise, alone, 

 will carry off" that hWe.— Popular Errors Ex- 

 plained. 



